The Pakistan Muslim League (PML) government in a few short years has established three new medical institutions in the Punjab alone, while none was established by any other regime in the past 30 years.
This was stated by Punjab Minister for Public Health Engineering (PHE) Hassan Akhtar Mokal while talking to local nazims, representatives of various NGOs and newsmen here on Wednesday. He said rural healthcare, a sector badly neglected by all previous regimes, was among the topmost priorities of this government, which had spent huge funds in upgrading 295 rural health centres (RHCs) and 2,500 basic health units (BHUs).
"The government, doing away with the red-tapism of yesteryears, is providing the latest high standard health services to the masses at their doorsteps," he observed, adding that new medical institutions were also being established through regeneration of existing resources and cooperation of World Health Organisation and other donor agencies.